Mechanical Properties and Fracture Phenomenon of Defected Monolayer Indium Selenide: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Abstract

In this study, we report the mechanical properties and fracture mechanism of pre-cracked and defected InSe nanosheet samples using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We noticed that the failure of pre-cracked and defected InSe nanosheet is governed by brittle type fracture. Armchair directional bonds exhibit a greater resistance for crack propagation relative to the zigzag directional ones. Thus, fracture strength of the pre-cracked sheet is slightly higher for zigzag directional loading than that for armchair. We evaluated the limitation of the applicability of Griffith's criterion for single layer (SL) InSe sheet for nano-cracks as the brittle failure of Griffith prediction demonstrates significant differences with the MD fracture strength. We inspected the effect of temperature on the mechanical properties of the pre-cracked samples of SLInSe. We also discussed the fracture mechanism of both defected and pre-cracked structure at length.

All authors contributed equally

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